Sentence examples for slang usage from inspiring English sources
According to Tom Dalzell, author of two books on slang usage in the United States, linguistics experts are not certain how the expression became popular in that country.
In its connotation of killing or destroying, the phrase is perhaps aptly American: The Oxford English Dictionary traces this slang usage to 1939, to Raymond Chandler's seminal detective potboiler "The Big Sleep" ("I'll take him out," the gumshoe Philip Marlowe says. "He'll think a bridge fell on him").
Now, Australians use a particular swear word often ― we don't need to tell you which one ― and the slang usage of it there isn't deemed as offensive as it is in America.
His other books included Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang and Usage (1989) and For Campaign Service (1979), a novel about British service personnel in Northern Ireland, written under the pseudonym Christopher Hawke.
SwiftKey's machine learning software learns its users' syntax, slang and social language usage to offer intelligent next word predictions within the context of the missive being created to help speed up the touchscreen typing process.
Now the etymologist rushes back to his library and plunges into other databases and slang booklets for early usages and semantic development.
Apart from the fact that it is among the ugliest and most hateful of slang terms still in common usage by respected newspapers and magazines, I believe that the term "trash" is hardly a fair description of someone of Ms. Brockovich's accomplishments.
Like slang: do I use slang every now and then?
